Толковый словарь английского языка - panel

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, piece of cloth, jury list on a piece of parchment, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *pannellus, diminutive of Latin pannus Date: 14th century 1. a. a schedule containing names of persons summoned as jurors, the group of persons so summoned, jury 1, b. a group of persons selected for some service (as investigation or arbitration) , a group of persons who discuss before an audience a topic of public interest, a group of entertainers or guests engaged as players in a quiz or guessing game on a radio or television program, a separate or distinct part of a surface: as, a fence section ; hurdle, b. a thin usually rectangular board set in a frame (as in a door), a usually sunken or raised section of a surface set off by a margin, a flat usually rectangular piece of construction material (as plywood or precast masonry) made to form part of a surface, a vertical section of fabric (as a gore), comic strip, a thin flat piece of wood on which a picture is painted, 4. a section of a switchboard, a usually vertical mount for controls or dials (as of instruments of measurement), II. transitive verb (-eled or -elled; -eling or -elling) Date: 15th century to furnish or decorate with ~s